Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]While we're on the subject, let's not forget about the faster, better Zeiss optics (at least at that time), combined finder, and bayonet mount! Marc James Small wrote: > At 06:39 PM 1/30/2001 -0600, goldman@math.umn.edu wrote: > > Do you have a source for this. I thought they were all Nikon as > >that is what most of their people used, and that Leica people like Bill > >Allard bought their own equipment. > > Nikon was busy making Japanese battleship rangefinders and the like in the > 1920's and '30's and wasn't selling cameras. That is when Leica ruled at > National Geographic, and it continued to do so through the Second World > War, though most of the other major magazines went over to Contax due to > the greater reliability of the Contax shutter. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!